The dog you rescued with a scar on her brow wags her tail and looks up at you, dark eyes shining mouth curved in a little smile. But that lonely road where you found her limping stays branded on her heart. In a tough moment, as she huddles in the corner wrapped in […]

Oh, blessed asteroid hurtling toward Earth please annihilate me. Destroy the piranhas that gnaw on my heart. Obliterate the gnats that buzz in my head. “Really?” a voice within whispers. “What if you simply surrender, let go of the lower concerns you hold so dear?” I call out for help, chant and […]

Out here in the far reaches of creation, I sail the Cosmic seas between stars. Like Voyager as it swings past Jupiter, frolics among Saturn’s rings, and discovers Titan’s thick blue haze, I relish life’s encounters as they arise within. Each one brightens me, lightens me and all of creation as well. Now, […]

Just now, under the frozen earth the seed awakens. Its heart begins a faint thump, thump, and its tiny hands tucked in tight tremble with a life ready to burst forth in spring. So do I, kissed by a warming sun feel the pulse of new energy beat within. What do I do […]

A tap on my shoulder signals me to step into the center of a circle of partygoers. This is a dance-off on an autumn Sunday night. A thin, bearded man has also been tagged and now stands in front of me. I start moving in an odd way, what feels like Elaine’s notorious dance on Seinfeld. I’ve never been […]

We ride horses across the plains, the air bittersweet with sage and sunflowers. I tie my bay to a ponderosa, as my brother, sister-in-law, and niece secure their horses. We hike to a cliff overlooking Coyote Creek, a pooling oasis that trickles down from the Turkey Mountains. My brother hands me the box, […]

Oh virga, blue curtain in the sky I envy you. Suspended there in the glowing light never do you fall upon the ground, swirl down the drain, or lose yourself in a muddy puddle. Instead your icy tendrels simply evaporate. But I am a river riding across the contours of this rocky earth as the […]

On this drought day when you ache for a full gushing thunderstorm yet only a spritz of rain cools your skin do not lose heart, my love. In the monsoon season the splattering rain today feeds the great torrent of tomorrow. So one day when you hardly expect it a billowing thunderhead will perch above […]

You smell it on the breeze sweet scent of wet piñon and red dust blowing off an advancing thunderhead. When the towering anvil arrives it casts bruised shadows, pelts all with frozen rain and thunders into your core. You call on the Beloved hold steady through the storm. Parched desert softens, convictions evaporate. […]